Gossip Girl

Who would think that out of the blue , a six year old little girl 's life would change forever? This incident was not only seen as a tragedy, but it was also seen as a liberation from for a child who had alcoholic, drug user as a mother. On November 23, 2004, I was taken from my mother by the Division of Family and Children Services, also known as DFCS, which is a business that helps families and children in need. The day that I was taken from my mother and put into a foster was a day that I…

Mothers, grandmothers, and stepmothers play an important role in every child 's life. They show and tell their child what to do. In the short story “Girl,” written by Jamaica Kincaid, a mother is doing just that. She is telling her daughter what to do and how to do it.“Girl” is more complex than a simple list of instructions and how-to’s. In Kincaid’s work, she dives deeply into the perspective of a young woman living in a poor country during the late 1970s as well as the girl’s mother’s…

Could an innocent Child’s toy effect their future career and how they see themselves? How exciting! Your best friend is having a little girl, it’s time for some shopping. So you grab your wallet and head to “Buy Buy Baby” to buy some cute pink clothes and Barbie’s and maybe even a cute little kitchen set for when she is just a little bit older. Admixed all of the excitement of a new babies coming into the world, have we as a society, ever stopped and looked at the different stereotypes and…

together. As Ruth Handler was having a vacation with her family in Europe she came across a doll that she believed could be morphed into something special back in the states. She brought the doll home, and with a makeover she was ready to be marketed to girls as a teen model. Named after her daughter Barbara, Barbie hit the shelves in 1959 and a new form of American female beauty was inscribed into history. History, just like so many times before, would be drastically…

Whether intentionally or not, especially as a male, we all have used the term “like a girl” without a shadow of concern about the ramifications of such words. Our obnoxious preface that girls may be inferior, as evident by the phrase, has sadly been apparent since youth and changes the schema in which both genders view the world at hand. The people over at Always have created a campaign centered on the rhetoric of counter-thinking societal clichéd views. Growing up as male within a predominately…

The differences between the movie and the book are great. There are people missing and scenes cut. There are people added and scenes added. For the most part though, the theme seemed to stay generally the same. These differences come about because of the difference of how movies focus more on drama and books go more in depth, so they came give more detail. The summary, in the general, for both translations Hannah is complaining about the remembering. She is tired of going over her…

bell rings and class begins. “Boys please leave the room so I can speak privately to the girls,” I hear before my teacher begins math class. The boys file out of the room one by one as I wait quietly at my desk. Once the last boy leaves the room, my teacher shuts the door behind her and turns to face the class, “Ladies, please kneel in the aisle next to your desk.” I look around and watch as the other girls begin to get out of their chairs to kneel beside their desks. I, too, get up to kneel…

Jesus was and why I was drinking his blood-but my mother corrected me when upset assuring it was actually just wine and the body just bread. I was hoping communion wasn 't like a wedding; I had just realized that I wasn 't really as into boys as I was girls and knew what child marriages were-yeah, at 7 I panicked about all sorts of things like rape, natural disaster, and child marriage. I touched all the dresses reaching inside the plastic outer covering.…

Jamaica Kincaid wrote “Girl” in 1978. This short story is a continuous run on sentence, which a mother is giving advice and warnings to her daughter. The title “Girl” could have several meanings, a mother looking after her ‘little girl’, a young lady who is still seen as a girl to society, and the idea of females being domesticated in the household. With all these ideas for the title from 1978, one might wonder what the title could mean now in 2016. If one were to modernize “Girl” now she would…

newborn baby dolls to toddler dolls. Some of these baby dolls were very realistic and came with packs of diapers, bottles, toys, and also had separate options of purchasing strollers, carriers, and cribs. I noticed that a majority of the baby dolls were girls and wore pink. Next to this area of baby dolls were the pretend house toys that consisted of play kitchens, cooking supplies, pretend food, cleaning supplies, and shopping carts. In this same aisle were the Barbie dolls. While the Barbie…